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[https://mole.upol.cz/ MOLEonline]<ref name="moleonline">PMID: 29718451</ref> locates and characterizes channels, tunnels and pores. Visualization in LiteMol, which has many menu options for rendering, but does not offer transparency. The thin "C-α trace" is the least obscuring. One can specify ''starting points'' and ''end points'' by selections (clickable sequence listing), residue lists, or XYZ points. Any subset of detected cavities can be displayed via checkboxes. After a cavity has been selected by clicking in the 3D rendering: Lining residues are listed (not spreadsheet ready); Properties are listed such as bottleneck (radius?) and length (but not area nor volume); a graphic is displayed showing selected properties (hydropathy, hydrophobicity, charge, polarity, etc.) along the length of the channel. | [https://mole.upol.cz/ MOLEonline]<ref name="moleonline">PMID: 29718451</ref> locates and characterizes channels, tunnels and pores. Channels are represented as chains of overlapping spheres, thus radially symmetric. Visualization in LiteMol, which has many menu options for rendering, but does not offer transparency. The thin "C-α trace" is the least obscuring. One can specify ''starting points'' and ''end points'' by selections (clickable sequence listing), residue lists, or XYZ points. Any subset of detected cavities can be displayed via checkboxes. After a cavity has been selected by clicking in the 3D rendering: Lining residues are listed (not spreadsheet ready); Properties are listed such as bottleneck (radius?) and length (but not area nor volume); a graphic is displayed showing selected properties (hydropathy, hydrophobicity, charge, polarity, etc.) along the length of the channel. | ||
Personal experience: When SARS-CoV-2 spike protein [[6zgi]] is submitted, cavities (connecting to the surface) and voids were displayed automatically. None represented the membrane-proximal cavity. When the center of the deepest part of the membrane-proximal cavity was specified via XYZ (215.6, 215.6, 157.6), ''tunnels'' were detected, including the three pictured at right. This was with the default ''Cavity parameter: probe radius'' of 5 Å. No ''tunnels'' were detected with that parameter set to 1.4 or 2.0 Å. | Personal experience: When SARS-CoV-2 spike protein [[6zgi]] is submitted, cavities (connecting to the surface) and voids were displayed automatically. None represented the membrane-proximal cavity. When the center of the deepest part of the membrane-proximal cavity was specified via XYZ (215.6, 215.6, 157.6), ''tunnels'' were detected, including the three pictured at right. This was with the default ''Cavity parameter: probe radius'' of 5 Å. No ''tunnels'' were detected with that parameter set to 1.4 or 2.0 Å. | ||